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Originally Posted by esquire
I know this is a random question, but I was walking by the Air Canada Building on Portage today and I took a good long look at it. It made me wonder, since the building has no real side walls, just windows all around, what was the intention in terms of development to the north and south?
Was it intended that the land to the north and south would just eventually become a grassy yard kind of like how the Great West/Canada Life campus on Osborne is? Or did the architects anticipate some sort of development on those sites?
That area to the north used to look kind of dignified when it was a park-like space, but now it's just plain ugly with the parking lot there. It got me wondering.
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It's kind of hard to say, but even if there was going to be some sort of development on the north parking lot, they would have to design whatever building it would be, to at least not "clash" with the unique design of the ACB.
I've spent a lot of time at the Air Canada Building when I was a contractor there. The 6th floor, if I recall correctly, is one big massive mechanical floor.
The 5th floor with the angled glass is pretty cool though. High enough from the inside so you won't obviously "fall over" but low enough to see vertically down.
Such a very interesting building to work in.